Word: emeralds
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...huge (33 by 45 feet) dazzling array of dancing lights and colors considerably more suggestive of the Byzantine east than of the Gothic north. The lines were angularly primitive, the colors warm turquoise blues, smoldering crimsons, emerald greens, rich topaz yellows. The figures and scenes had an oriental look-a dark-haloed Judas, a grey, long-armed figure of Christ on the Cross, a group of stiff, formalized saints seated at a round table for the Last Supper. Wrote Critic John Russell in the Sunday Times: it "is not the turbulent board meeting of Leonardesque tradition, but a starlit gathering...
...another that no other House can touch--Dan Cannon. Assistant superintendent, Dan actually has talents that go far beyond what the title of his job suggests. He will build your bookcase or new chair for you, dissert for hours on the problems of modern Ireland, tell stories in his emerald brogue, or help get a party rolling on a football week...
...emerald's 'grass-lamp glow' is better...
...nightclub. Among the items on the block: a collection of fairy tales inscribed "to the beauty from the beast," a faded black lace evening dress with sewn-in falsies, 75 pairs of shoes, 15 fur coats and wraps, two mink stoles (one white, one black), a marshmallow-size emerald ring, four wedding rings-although only three previous husbands can be accounted...
With that, the Oregon Daily Emerald took up the cry. In a pair of scathing editorials, the student editor attacked race prejudice and alumnae control of sororities: "An Oregon sorority has just paid homage to one of the strongest satans of our society. It has given way to fear of an unwritten social code and executed an injustice ugly on a college campus...